[17725] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Why Blockbuster looks at your ID.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R.A. Hettinga)
Sat Jul 9 11:08:06 2005
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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 15:10:45 -0400
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>,
Dan Kaminsky <dan@doxpara.com>
From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: Edgar Danielyan <e.danielyan@gmail.com>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
At 1:16 PM -0400 7/8/05, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>I seem to have gotten that one drastically wrong. Thanks for the
>more accurate figures.
Don't worry. I would bet that identity theft will more than make up for it
soon enough, as transaction settlement times converge to instantaneity.
*That's* potentially *infinite* risk to the *consumer*, which is an
interesting proposition.
Cheers,
RAH
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